As F14 is EOL, I'm planning to install F16 real soon now.
The plan is to install F16 on a completely different set of partitions.
I've never had an install go right the first time.
Adding to the fear and trepidation, is the change from grub to grub2.
I'd like to be sure that after the disaster I can boot the old system.
Could I do something like put my old /boot onto a CD and boot from that?
If the old /boot isn't written over, could I use any live CD?

In the first case,
can I just tell the CD burner to burn the /boot partition?
In the second case, do I need to invoke the grub shell?
If so, what do I tell it?

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On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:


As F14 is EOL, I'm planning to install F16 real soon now.
The plan is to install F16 on a completely different set of partitions.
I've never had an install go right the first time.
Adding to the fear and trepidation, is the change from grub to grub2.
I'd like to be sure that after the disaster I can boot the old system.
Could I do something like put my old /boot onto a CD and boot from that?
If the old /boot isn't written over, could I use any live CD?

In the first case,
can I just tell the CD burner to burn the /boot partition?
In the second case, do I need to invoke the grub shell?
If so, what do I tell it?


Prepare CD Supergrub2 live in case

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On 02/11/2012 12:01 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:


I've never had an install go right the first time.


Have you ever tried to find out why? Part of the testing every new
version of Fedora is supposed to go through is making sure that it will
install correctly on as many different configurations as possible. Why
is your machine different from all of the machines used for testing, and
is there anything that can be done to get installations to work right
the first time?

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

As F14 is EOL, I'm planning to install F16 real soon now.

The plan is to install F16 on a completely different set of partitions.

I've never had an install go right the first time.

Adding to the fear and trepidation, is the change from grub to grub2.

I'd like to be sure that after the disaster I can boot the old system.

Could I do something like put my old /boot onto a CD and boot from that?

If the old /boot isn't written over, could I use any live CD?



In the first case,

can I just tell the CD burner to burn the /boot partition?

In the second case, do I need to invoke the grub shell?

If so, what do I tell it?



Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1?




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that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." *-- *Lily

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On 02/11/2012 12:18 PM, JD wrote:



Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1?


AIUI, if you upgrade to F16 you will end up with both versions of grub
installed but will still be using legacy grub. You have to run
grub2-install yourself. I've no idea why, or why the upgrade process
doesn't tell you about it. My only guess is that somebody wasn't quite
confident enough that the conversion would be 100% transparent and
decided that this would be safer.

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On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Joe Zeff wrote:


On 02/11/2012 12:01 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:


I've never had an install go right the first time.


Have you ever tried to find out why? Part of the testing every new


I know part of the reason.
Long before the struggle is over,
I feel more like killing something than
writing down what, if anything, I learned.
The result is that the next install doesn't go any better than the previous.
Usually, I do get an install,
but there is a lot of "Oh crap, why doesn't that work?".
Of course, by the time I get that working, I don't
know most of what I've done to make it work.

All that said, I think it might be useful to
have my printer turned on during the install.

version of Fedora is supposed to go through is making sure that it will
install correctly on as many different configurations as possible. Why
is your machine different from all of the machines used for testing, and
is there anything that can be done to get installations to work right
the first time?


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On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, JD wrote:


On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Michael Hennebry <
hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:


I've never had an install go right the first time.
Adding to the fear and trepidation, is the change from grub to grub2.
I'd like to be sure that after the disaster I can boot the old system.



Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1?


My old system is F14.

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:

On 02/11/2012 12:18 PM, JD wrote:






Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1?




AIUI, if you upgrade to F16 you will end up with both versions of grub installed but will still be using legacy grub. *You have to run grub2-install yourself. *I've no idea why, or why the upgrade process doesn't tell you about it. *My only guess is that somebody wasn't quite confident enough that the conversion would be 100% transparent and decided that this would be safer.


Well, that is interesting! I will check and compare with F14 contents of /boot.

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Joe Zeff wrote:




On 02/11/2012 12:01 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:




I've never had an install go right the first time.




Have you ever tried to find out why? *Part of the testing every new




I know part of the reason.

Long before the struggle is over,

I feel more like killing something than

writing down what, if anything, I learned.

The result is that the next install doesn't go any better than the previous.

Usually, I do get an install,

but there is a lot of "Oh crap, why doesn't that work?".

Of course, by the time I get that working, I don't

know most of what I've done to make it work.



All that said, I think it might be useful to

have my printer turned on during the install.




version of Fedora is supposed to go through is making sure that it will install correctly on as many different configurations as possible. *Why is your machine different from all of the machines used for testing, and is there anything that can be done to get installations to work right the first time?




I can tell you my "Oh crap ...." after installing F16!
The latest version of Gnome does not give the gnome login prompt. Only a black screen.
My GPU is the legacy ATI* Radeon Mobility 9600/M10.

So, I have no idea if the problem is with Gnome 3, or with the latest X driver for my chipset.
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On 02/11/2012 12:39 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:

I feel more like killing something than
writing down what, if anything, I learned.
The result is that the next install doesn't go any better than the previous.


Take notes as you go along. By hand, if you don't have a better way.
Until you can report what's wrong, there's no way anybody's going to be
able to create a permanent fix.

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